Visiting the Early Years and Year 1 and 2 classrooms this week felt like stepping into a magical world full of book characters; princesses, mermaids, dragons, fairies, superheroes and other wonderful story figures. The best thing was all these different characters playing and learning so nicely together, being communicative parrots and cooperative ants, all obviously happy being at school! In the coming weeks, the Early Years students will learn all about shopping, setting up shops in the classroom, being the shop keeper and the customer. The Year 1 students are finishing off their Art topic ‘Flowers and Insects’ by making big, colourful paper mache insects. And the Year 2 students are developing their Geography and Science skills learning about ‘Earth our home.’

Prefect Notices: Students of TBS…… It has been almost 2 weeks of learning on campus. It seems as though everyone has smoothly transitioned from a home learning environment to a school campus environment. It is nice to see familiar faces in person rather than our screens. Although not everything is back to normal, with systems set in place for everyone’s safety, it is a step in the right direction. We recommend that all students follow the rules and regulations for everyone’s safety and to keep a clean, protected environment.

Teacher of the Week: The winner of this week’s ‘Teacher of the week’ is Ms. Middlebrook. Students have said that Ms. Middlebrook has different and unique ways of explaining the topics which makes it easy for everyone to understand what is being taught. The students feel as though she is always willing to give up time in lessons to support anyone who may find things challenging. 

Thanks Ms. Middlebrook!

Weekly fun challenge: For the weekly fun challenge, can you guess where in Nepal these three locations are? Try to be the first person to email us with the correct answers (prefects@tbs.edu.np).

Please click on this link to view the term dates for the next academic year.

Across Primary last week all classes embraced and celebrated the different languages we have around us at home and at school as it was International Mother Language Day! Although we were not able to celebrate altogether, it was wonderful to see the celebrations of home languages taking place.

We were treated to stories in Nepali, Tibetan and Bengali, tongue twisters in Urdu and Spanish, and fact files about languages such as Yiddish! Overall it was a lovely celebration of languages! Merci, Danke and Dhanyabad for everyone’s excellent work.

KS3 Students have been having fun with the Performing Arts Workshops and transferring the knowledge that they have acquired and developed online to being in the ‘real’ classroom. Here are some Year 7 students performing their directed routine to the edited song “Yorktown” from the musical Hamilton.

Following this, here are Year 8 students rehearsing “Revolting Children” from Matilda. This half of the class’s final performance will be on Friday 5th March. For this they were taught choreography online and then given the chance to develop their own moves and routines in groups to the final section of the song.

In Drama lessons, Year 7 have begun exploring Greek Theatre and they have been looking at tableaux, chorus, canon and unison. Here are some of their group interpretations of the phrases: ‘power,’ ‘good Vs. evil,’ and ‘good overcoming evil’.

The IGCSE Drama students are working on scripted texts. Year 10 students are busy developing either the text of “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck or “Find Me” by Olwen Wymark. This week they have been practically blocking out the movements, looking at the pace of the performance and considering the character relationships.

“Heroes, Villains, Aged Parents & Damsels in Distress” have been our stock characters for this week’s Year 9 lessons. Students began to think about creative poses, phrases the characters may say or sounds that the characters may make, as well as developing the skills to direct one another. From this, we also began to layer on stock Melodrama moves to explore grief, fear, horror, evil planning and evil sneaking.

We’d like to formally introduce a new member of our community to you. Khushi was a stray dog who was found near to school in desperate need of life-saving treatment. She had recently given birth to a puppy and was suffering with TVT, a form of cancer. The local dogs, and some of the people, had not been kind to her or her puppy and so they spent much of their time hiding in an abandoned building, only coming out in search of food. Fortunately, Animal Nepal (now one of our community partners) and the Kat Centre, stepped in to help, and despite the lockdown, managed to get Khushi across the city to a treatment centre that could offer chemotherapy. The puppy was also given treatment and then homed.

Self-help Group for Cerebral Palsy(SGCP) one of our community partners is a non-governmental and non-profit organisation which focuses on helping children and adults with cerebral palsy. This institution located in Dhapakhel, Lalitpur teaches vocational skills to its students and has given many the ability to make products on their own.

To show support to this outstanding organisation, we would strongly urge you to look through the pictures of their very reasonably priced (zoom in on the pictures) but brilliantly made products and to place orders if anything interests you. For further inquiries contact: sgcp@cpnepal.org, 22bhansalii@tbs.edu.np.